Diversity (Pittsburgh, Harrisburg, Clarion: home, unemployment, construction)

[Agbor]

I guess thats a big ingrained cultural white american assumption...that other people are
specificially looking to settle where there are white americans...they could be crack-heads..but as long as they are white american let's move next door to them..

A presumption of "better-than" X is operating somewhere..assuming "white"=wealthy...

I was told of a story where an Asian man was buying a home and he specifically told the
realtor to show him a house in the white neighborhood,NOT the black one,he brought it up first in the conversation...its more about presumptions and assumptions nowdays than
outright racial hostility...maybe he got steered to a poor white neighborhood,rather than
a middle-class black one like the Huxtables..

[Agbor]

Also..a lot of this stuff, nowdays,upon closer analysis is more-class based than race-based if you really look at things...

I would say most sane people would like to live in a safe neighborhood,with low dysfunction and low crime rate regardless of race..people gravitate toward the
familiar..that what they are used to...culturally and class wise..

[zip95]

Originally Posted by Gypsii

Diversity also drives some away from their great jobs and beautiful homes. That is, some folks flee at the first sight of anything that's different from themselves. If we're honest, the reality is that Whites tend to prefer to live around other Whites, Blacks around other Blacks, etc... As well, middle class folks prefer to live around other middles, uppers around other uppers, etc... Nothing wrong with it.

Even when folks work around other races, they tend to live in communities comprised of folks who look similar to them. Again, nothing at all wrong with it. I simply wish that White people would abandan the belief that groups are dying to live around us. Most of us would be surprised at how uncomfortable and strange other groups find whites.

Pittsburghs most populous region is the East End coupled with the Eastern Suburbs. Here, the "facts-on-the-ground" contradict much of your post. Diversity abounds in that area.

I would say the Eastern Region is the way it is, because they have the educated university population, and the vast majority of the region's middle-upper class blacks.

[leeving]

Pittsburgh will never be a diverse city. The majority of the residents are Italian, Polish, and German. Most of the families here are only 2nd or 3rd generation US citizens. Top that off with an uneducated, blue collar background (save for this latest generation) and there's not much hope for the kind of diversity in Pittsburgh that you'd see in other American cities.

[Staash]

Originally Posted by leeving

Pittsburgh will never be a diverse city. The majority of the residents are Italian, Polish, and German. Most of the families here are only 2nd or 3rd generation US citizens. Top that off with an uneducated, blue collar background (save for this latest generation) and there's not much hope for the kind of diversity in Pittsburgh that you'd see in other American cities.

What a shame. I guess that we're relegated to being "painfully white" -- the horror!

We really should import some MS-13 to help make this town more "vibrant".

[bradjl2009]

Originally Posted by Staash

What a shame. I guess that we're relegated to being "painfully white" -- the horror!

We really should import some MS-13 to help make this town more "vibrant".

Lol we could get em by telling them when they or for their friends are protesting to be citizens in LA to come up here to please the people who want more diversity. You can't change a town and while I do see Pittsburgh becoming maybe a smudge more diverse, I don't see anything dramatic anytime soon like in the rest of the US.

[Copanut]

Originally Posted by bradjl2009

and while I do see Pittsburgh becoming maybe a smudge more diverse, I don't see anything dramatic anytime soon like in the rest of the US.

What is the rest of the US like?

I'm willing to bet that the most diverse cities in the US are those that have a booming economy. Who comes from another country seeking a better life and decides to live in, say, the Greater Pitcairn-Trafford area?
No, you'll go where the jobs are, and they aren't in the 'Burg.

[dugdogmaster]

Originally Posted by COPANUT

What is the rest of the US like?

I'm willing to bet that the most diverse cities in the US are those that have a booming economy. Who comes from another country seeking a better life and decides to live in, say, the Greater Pitcairn-Trafford area?
No, you'll go where the jobs are, and they aren't in the 'Burg.

They aren't jobs anywhere in the US right now.

[dugdogmaster]

What is diversity?

1. The state or fact of being diverse; difference; unlikeness.
2. Variety; multiformity.
3. A point of difference.

It's irrelative. It means different things to different people.

[dugdogmaster]

Originally Posted by leeving

Pittsburgh will never be a diverse city. The majority of the residents are Italian, Polish, and German. Most of the families here are only 2nd or 3rd generation US citizens. Top that off with an uneducated, blue collar background (save for this latest generation) and there's not much hope for the kind of diversity in Pittsburgh that you'd see in other American cities.

So, a city filled with people being from completely different backgrounds of heritage, way more than you mentioned too, isn't diverse enough? Wow! Where is your reasoning in this?